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vertebra

/vur-tuh-bruh/US // ˈvɜr tə brə //UK // (ˈvɜːtɪbrə) //

椎骨,脊椎骨,椎体,脊椎体

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ver·te·brae [vur-tuh-bree, -brey], /ˈvɜr təˌbri, -ˌbreɪ/, ver·te·bras.Anatomy, Zoology.

    • : any of the bones or segments composing the spinal column, consisting typically of a cylindrical body and an arch with various processes, and forming a foramen, or opening, through which the spinal cord passes.

Examples

  • The bullet had burst her C5 vertebra, but, remarkably, the round had tumbled millimeters past her major arteries and narrowly missed severing her spine.

  • It introduced readers to Tina Brooks, a former police officer who fractured a vertebra in her back and damaged three others in her neck when she plunged 15 feet down a steep quarry while training for bicycle patrol.

  • It includes five percussion speeds and comes with five heads, including a fork head to get muscles close to the vertebrae.

  • Large bone fragments and teeth appear to be well-preserved, but smaller bones like vertebrae or thin rib bones likely didn’t survive as well.

  • These vertebrae also preserve annual growth bands, like the rings of a tree, showing how the fish grew.

  • I have no idea when the second vertebra went out during the battle.

  • One vertebra had given way in Ganjigal when I picked up an Askar and slipped in the bloody mud under him.

  • Such a contrivance would save his feet, check his perspiration, and console his dorsal vertebra.

  • But I also find the petrified vertebra of an antediluvian animal upon which the Trojans have carved a large owls head.

  • The ball passed through the liver and diaphragm, and lodged in the vertebra.

  • Pleurapoph′ysis, a lateral process of a vertebra, with the morphological character of a rib:—pl.

  • Probably not; and more especially if it is a lumbar artery, and injured in the foramen through which it passes from the vertebra.